The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is a government agency in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was established by the passage of Oregon House Bill 2009 by the 75th Oregon Legislative Assembly, and split off from Oregon Department of Human Services. OHA oversees most of Oregon's health-related programs including behavioral health, public health, Oregon State Hospital for individuals requiring secure residential psychiatric care, and the state's Medicaid program called the Oregon Health Plan. Its policy work is overseen by the nine member Oregon Health Policy Board.
A mobile COVID-19 testing center run by the Oregon Health Authority in November 2020.
Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem with a smaller satellite campus in Junction City opened in 2014. Founded in 1862 and constructed in the Kirkbride Plan design in 1883, it is the oldest operating psychiatric hospital in the state of Oregon, and one of the oldest continuously operated hospitals on the West Coast.
West facade of the original Kirkbride building of the Oregon State Hospital, 2011
Oregon State Hospital c. 1900
Memorial where cremains from unclaimed patients are kept, 2015
Hospital campus during construction in 2011